CPD Course:
Legitimate Expectations:
All You Need to Know!

Dr. Stephen Thomson is a specialist in Hong Kong public law and is the author of the leading text ‘Administrative Law in Hong Kong’ (Cambridge University Press, 2018).  He is a Legal Adviser to the Ombudsman of Hong Kong, a member of the Constitutional Affairs and Human Rights Committee of the Law Society of Hong Kong, and an examiner on the Overseas Lawyers Qualification Examination, and was Associate Professor of Law and Director of Research Postgraduate Programmes at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong.  He holds a Ph.D. in judicial review from the University of Edinburgh (UK), and has practical legal and commercial experience, having worked at a UK law firm and acted on a consultancy and advisory basis to law firms, private clients and public bodies in Hong Kong and the UK.

An accessible, step-by-step seminar on legitimate expectations from the author of the new, leading text on administrative law in Hong Kong (Stephen Thomson, 'Administrative Law in Hong Kong', Cambridge University Press, 2018).  Whether your work involves judicial review and you want to brush up on this essential ground of review, or you work in another area but want to strengthen your background legal knowledge in dealing with public bodies, this seminar makes a difficult subject easy to understand.  The seminar covers who can generate legitimate expectations, how they are generated, and how they are protected.  It also examines essential issues such as whether knowledge and reliance are required to establish breach of a legitimate expectation, and whether the representations of one government department can bind another department.  Come along and get to grips with this increasingly important area of law!

• What are legitimate expectations?
• Who can generate legitimate expectations?
• How are they generated?
• How are they protected?
• Specific vs. general classes of person relying on legitimate expectations
• Can the representations of one government department bind another department?
• Knowledge and reliance
• Conduct of the applicant